West End photos with a Lumix GF-1
After selling a few photos recently I was able to justify shelling out for a Lumix 14mm-45mm zooms lens for my Panasonic Lumix GF-1 camera.
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Photos, features, oddities and snapshots from the streets of London
Lost London 1870 – 1945: stunning unpublished archive images
Stuffed full of over 500 incredible photographs of London taken between 1875 and 1945, this coffee table book from English Heritage is an absolute treat. The previously unpublished images show …
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Whoosh! Red Arrows flypast over London
Troubling my hangover with an unexpected burst of noise and colour was this flypast of the Red Arrows in London a few moments ago.
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Dan Sartain at the Garage, north London
It’s always a risky business taking to the stage in dark glasses, but Dan Sartain just about pulled it off last night.
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Beggar on Mods Mayday 79 – another blast from my past [video]
Blimey. I was a bit surprised to see that someone had gone to the trouble of putting up YouTube videos of mod images accompanying two of our live recordings from …
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Take heed! Britain’s first fatal car accident, Harrow, 1899
En route to the boozer before Saturday’s Championship play off final at Wembley, I passed this plaque on a wall in Grove Hill, Harrow on the Hill. The roadside plaque …
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Piccadilly, South Bank and Green Park, May 2010
I love wandering around London wth my trusty Lumix X3 camera – here’s a few pics from a Friday ramble, starting with a photo of the cranes around Piccadilly.
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Orbital Comics, Great Newport Street, London
It was a real shame when the Photographers’ Gallery moved from its site on Great Newport Street in central London, but I’m happy to say that the building has been …
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A trip to the Dead House underneath Somerset House
On Saturday, we popped down to see ‘A Flow of Words,’ a spoken word event in the Dead House, underneath Somerset House.
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Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London
This is a lovely tea shop/cafe in the heart of Soho. You can smell the leaves of the many blends on offer before ordering, and they do some pretty fine …
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Some truly top notch heckling here. The man deserves a pint. Sky’s news anchor was heckled while presenting live on Sky News this afternoon, with a enraged protester repeating chants …
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Crap London jobs: the sandwich board man
Sandwich board men have been on the streets of London for centuries, providing cheap and effective advertising for local businesses. Go back two hundred years and you would have seen …
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As part of the campaign to bring the World Science Fiction Convention to London in 2014, a four minute video montage of movie invasions has been put together. Dr Who …
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The Rookery, Streatham Common, London
This attractive, formally-landscaped area at the top of Streatham Common used to be known as Streatham Spa and once stood in the grounds of a large house called The Rookery.
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The Streatham Common Annual Kite Day
This was a fantastic day out and the weather was near perfect (apart from the nadger-freezing temperature).
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Behold! Hendon Broadway and station
I had to take a trip to Hendon last week. It wasn’t very nice.
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My mate Marcus at the ICA
My mate Marcus Oakley is an ace artist so we popped along to the ICA by Trafalgar Square to watch him do a live drawing thing with two of his …
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Gas lamp, Green Park
I love gas lamps: so here’s one in Green Park, central London. See more London gas lamps here.
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Remembering Broad Street railway station, London
Closed in 1986 after a long and lingering death, the once bustling terminus at Broad Street was in a parlous state at the end, with its extensive canopies cut back, …
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Bright light over London. Are we calling Batman?
There’s a very bright blue light shining up into the central London night sky from what must be somewhere around the Southbank. I don’t think we’re in need of Batman …
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The incredible fake houses of Paddington
A deceptive façade at 23/24 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, London W2
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A trip to the fabulous Horniman Museum
I love this place – parts of it feel like you’ve stepped into an untouched Edwardian gallery of curiosities, while other parts are as high tech as anything you’ll find …
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Tate Modern: Miroslaw Balka’s ‘How It Is’ sculpture
Polish artist Miroslaw Balka’s sculpture – entitled ‘How It Is’ – dominates the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, standing 13 metres high by 30 metres long, and balanced on …
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Revolution Paper, Mexican Prints at the British Museum
This is only on until the 5th of April, so get down to the British Museum sharpish if you want to check out some superb political posters from the great …
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London Razor skyscraper packs wind turbines, Bladerunner-style (update)
Looking like it’s sprouted from the set of Bladerunner is London’s newest high-rise apartment block, the ‘Razor.’ The 148 metre-tall high-tech tower will feature built-in wind turbines – a world …
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Snappers snap snaps at the Getty photogallery
Photographers taking photographs of photographs at the Getty Gallery, by Oxford Circus.
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National Portrait Gallery
There’s a small selection of great photos to be seen downstairs in the National Portrait Gallery at the moment. It’s free so pop in if you’re in town! Oh, I’m …
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Great to see old-school punk/jazz/experimentalists Blurt doing their thing upstairs at the Dogstar last night.
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I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! protest
We went along to Saturday’s I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! protest in Trafalgar Square to register our concerns about about the increasing use of terrorism laws against street photographers. …
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Goodbye snow
It was with a heavy heart that I pulled back the curtains this morning to be greeted with a damp, wet day outside. At least the snow went out with …
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